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==Captains==
==Captains==
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
Dates of appointment are provided when known.
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*  Captain [[George John Scott Warrender, Seventh Baronet|Sir George J. S. Warrender, Bart.]], 11 July 1899.<ref>Warrender Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 1384.</ref>
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*  Captain [[Evelyn Robert Le Marchant|Evelyn R. Le Marchant]], 8 March, 1904.<ref>Le Marchant Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/39.}}  f. 790.</ref>
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*  Captain [[Robert Hamilton Anstruther|Robert H. Anstruther]], 6 April, 1906.<ref>Anstruther Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 96.</ref>
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*  Captain [[Francis Fitzgerald Haworth-Booth|Francis F. Haworth-Booth]], 20 March, 1908.<ref>''The Navy List'' (October, 1908).  p. 287.</ref>
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*  Captain [[Maurice Woollcombe]], 1 April, 1910.<ref>Woollcombe Service Record.  {{TNA|ADM 196/42.}}  f. 504.</ref>
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Revision as of 19:12, 6 May 2014

H.M.S. Brilliant (1891)
Pendant Number: N.16 (1914)
N.14 (Jan 1918)[1]
Builder: Sheerness Royal Dockyard[2]
Laid down: 1890[3]
Launched: 24 Jun, 1891[4]
Commissioned: 1893[5]
Blockship: 23 Apr, 1918[6]

H.M.S. Brilliant was one of 21 Apollo class second-class cruisers completed in the early to mid 1890s.

Service

In 1910, despite her advanced age, Brilliant was the best gunnery ship of the three tested in the Fourth Cruiser Squadron, scoring 52.52, compared to the average 41.888.[7]

Captains

Dates of appointment are provided when known.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Dittmar; Colledge. British Warships 1914–1919. p. 39.
  2. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  3. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  4. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  5. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  6. ↑ Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. p. 76.
  7. ↑ The National Archives. ADM 1/8328, p. 4.
  8. ↑ Warrender Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 1384.
  9. ↑ Le Marchant Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/39. f. 790.
  10. ↑ Anstruther Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 96.
  11. ↑ The Navy List. (October, 1908). p. 287.
  12. ↑ Woollcombe Service Record. The National Archives. ADM 196/42. f. 504.

See Also

Footnotes

Bibliography


Apollo Class Second Class Protected Cruiser
Æolus Andromache Apollo Brilliant Indefatigable
Intrepid Iphigenia Latona Melampus Naiad
Pique Rainbow Retribution Sappho Scylla
  Sirius Spartan Sybille  
  Terpsichore Thetis Tribune  
<– Barham Class Minor Cruisers (UK) Astræa Class –>
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